By Adam D. Weeks
Witness Marks
With a line from Emma Depanise
Softly, I’ll say touch
me, I’m antiquity with
a body that ticks,
that is ticking, that’s fallen
and fallen again into
time and out with this
other loud machinery—
how does the second
hand learn speed? I’ll tell you all
about you and me—
always leaving, landing, lug
-ging our hand-me-down
bodies into the years but
I am writing this
into history: fit in
-to me. Break into me. Oh,
how hardly I love
you and all the ways you’ve left
me—citied, littered
with one-way streets, with secret
gardens and hardened bodies
big as the sky, with
just as many eyes. My god,
how well you’ve mapped me.
Nuclear Music
With lines from Ani DiFranco
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